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T-Mobile Austria Selects Openmind to Power A2P Messaging

Openmind Networks today announced that it has been selected in a competitive tender with T-Mobile Austria to deliver a new Application 2 Person (A2P) Gateway to power the operator’s A2P messaging.

Openmind succeeded, in a tender which included ten other vendors, because its A2P Gateway offered both superior technical and commercial benefits to T-Mobile Austria. The project to deploy Openmind’s A2P Gateway is now underway and the launch is expected to take place later this year.

T-Mobile Austria made the decision to replace its existing legacy A2P gateway last year, launching a Request for Proposal (RFP) to find an improved solution.

“We chose Openmind’s A2P Gateway based on technical and commercial merit, but also because of the leading position that Openmind has carved out in the messaging space,” said Rüdiger Köster, CTO of T-Mobile Austria. “We are very excited to complete the deployment of the new platform later this year. We look forward to beginning to experience the benefits that Openmind’s technology can unlock in our network”.

The T-Mobile Austria deal marks the latest in a series of major customer wins for Openmind, who are now the fastest growing messaging infrastructure vendor in the marketplace. T-Mobile Austria said that the Openmind A2P Gateway impressed them as it possessed the ability to process high levels of increased messaging traffic in short time periods. The operator also said the platform’s robustness and high level of security were a factor in its decision.

“We’re delighted to be working in conjunction with T-Mobile Austria to help it deliver a first-class messaging experience with our A2P Gateway,” said Alex Duncan, CEO of Openmind. “It was a fantastic feeling to come through a challenging RFP process against a very strong field of competitors. We now look forward to supporting T-Mobile Austria’s strategic business goals well into the future”.

Openmind’s communication platform, Traffic Control, powers over one billion messages every day in 120 installations worldwide. The platform is a fully integrated solution which enables mobile operators to consolidate numerous legacy systems onto a single platform. It comprises an SMSC, MMSC, RCS, USSD Gateway, Application Gateway and Spam Filter; with advanced business reporting logic and customer care interfaces on-board. Traffic Control’s built-in SIP interface – an IP SM-GW – (which was also included in the T-Mobile purchase) enables the launch of IMS based messaging services in the future.

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About Openmind Networks

Openmind’s Communication Platform is deployed in over 120 sites across 30 countries in Europe, Middle East, Asia and North America, powering over 1 Billion transactions every day. Customers include Mobile Operators, Inter-Carrier Operators, Social and Media providers and more recently, direct to consumers in the App space. The technology provides a gateway for communication and the transfer of data that takes place between individuals, groups, Apps, Service Providers and machines. The platform offers their customers all of the interfaces required to deliver and develop these services. Openmind is headquartered in Dublin with regional offices in the Czech Republic, Germany, UAE, USA and the Netherlands.

T-Mobile Austria has 4.1 million customers and is the second biggest mobile operator in Austria. In 2013 T-Mobile invested over € 100 million in the network with a specific focus on the roll out of HSPA+ and the next generation mobile network LTE. T-Mobile’s headquarter the T-Center is based in Vienna on the Rennweg near the “Südost-Tangente”. Next to 46 T-Mobile shops T-Mobile also has sales offices in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Klagenfurt.

T-Mobile Austria is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG and hence, belongs to one of the world’s leading companies in telecommunications. The company’s international outlook allows T-Mobile customers to benefit from a wide range of products and services, both at home and abroad.